In June 1981, ** voluntarily resigned from his leadership position, after which he and his wife lived a low-key retirement life in Beijing, he did not accept public interviews and did not express his opinions until 1997, after his death, ** made a rare request to **.
On February 19, 1997, 93-year-old *** died in Beijing, at the age of 76, due to physical conditions, *** could not attend ***'s memorial service in person, so he asked someone to send *** elegiac couplet to express his condolences and nostalgia for ***.
broke many people's doubts about the relationship between *** and ***, since the "Gang of Four" was crushed, on the issue of ***'s comeback, as well as "two whatevers" and "putting things right" and other issues, ** and *** have had differences of opinion, and some people say that this is a "contest".
This understanding is very one-sided and narrow-minded, in fact, after the smashing of the "Gang of Four", ** did not explicitly oppose the comeback of ***, according to Wu De, who participated in the smashing of the "Gang of Four", after the smashing of the "Gang of Four", at the Politburo meeting in October 1976, ** put forward three suggestions.
At that time, the first suggestion was to ask *** to come out to work, the second was to let him come out in a dignified manner, and the third was to make some preparations for *** to come out to work.
Some people who don't know the situation misreported that it was *** obstructing *** comeback, and at that time, the then deputy prime minister *** asked *** not to let *** come back, saying: "If he comes back, where will you go?"."However, *** did not support ***'s suggestion.
It can be seen that *** is regardless of personal gains and losses, there is no personal contradiction between him and ***, in 1977, ** successfully resumed work, but during the period of *** presided over the work, he supported and did not correct the "two whatevers", which led to the continuation of the wrong policy.
At that time, under the influence of the "two whatevers", the work of redressing unjust, false and wrongly decided cases was obstructed, and at the same time, the phenomenon of the first was still continuing.
After the "Great Debate on the Standard of Truth", in November 1980, it was decided to convene a meeting of the Politburo to study and solve the problem of ***.
Later, he made a speech, which also affirmed his contribution to the smashing of the "Gang of Four", pointed out some problems during his presiding over the work, and bluntly said that he was not suitable to continue to hold a leadership position.
**After retirement, he lived a simple life, and only met some relatives and friends in his hometown, old friends and familiar juniors in private, and rarely appeared in public.
With the fact that there are fewer and fewer old revolutionaries alive, there are no witnesses to discuss and screen some historical events, and many details cannot be restored and confirmed, which is not good for educating the younger generations and social development.